Structured Abstract

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
• 1. Introduction
  • Conceptual Framework and Key Questions
• 2. Methods
  • Topic Development
  • Search Strategy
  • Study Selection
  • Data Abstraction
  • Study Quality Assessment
  • Data Synthesis
  • Data Entry and Quality Control
  • Rating the Body of Evidence
  • Peer Review
• 3. Results
  • Search Results
  • Key Question 1
  • Key Question 2
  • Key Question 3
  • Key Question 4
• 4. Discussion
  • Summary of the Key Findings
  • Conclusions
  • Future Research
  • Implications
• List of Abbreviations
• Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Technical Experts and Peer Reviewers
  • Appendix B: Hand Searched Journals
  • Appendix C: Detailed Electronic Database Search Strategies
  • Appendix D: List of Excluded Studies
  • Appendix E: Sample Data Abstraction Forms
  • Appendix F: Evidence Tables
• References

Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.¹ Contract No. 290-02-0018. Prepared by: The Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center, Baltimore, MD.

Suggested citation:

Nicholson WK, Wilson LM, Witkop CT, Baptiste-Roberts K, Bennett WL, Bolen S, Barone BB, Golden SH, Gary TL, Neale DM, Bass EB. Therapeutic Management, Delivery, and Postpartum Risk Assessment and Screening in Gestational Diabetes. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 162 (Prepared by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0018.) AHRQ Publication No. 08-E004. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. March 2008.

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